| AdminHistory | Beauchief Abbey was founded and endowed in 1183 by Robert Fitz-Randulph, Lord of Alfreton, and dedicated to St Thomas the Martyr and the Virgin Mary. It was dissolved in 1536 and lay in ruins for more than a hundred years. The imposing 14th-century tower is all that remains of the original building. The small chapel now adjoining the tower is not part of the original monastery but was built there c. 1670 out of the Abbey ruins. Religious service in the walls of the old Abbey was restored by Mr Edward Pegge around 1662, when Mr Nathaniel Baxter, one of the ejected ministers, was invited to preach there. A Sunday service in the Abbey has continued from that time onwards. In the early part of the 20th century, the Abbey Church was extra-parochial, still in private hands, holding marriages, baptisms and funerals. Beauchief Abbey became the property of Sheffield Corporation in the 1930s.
Beauchief Abbey Chapel is situated on Beauchief Abbey Drive off Beauchief Abbey Lane in the deanery of Ecclesall. |
| Description | Registers:
Composites (Baptisms, Marriage and Burials), 1670 - 1720, 1756 - 1772 (PR 31/1)
Baptisms, 1736 - 1955 (PR31/2)
Marriages, 1768 - 1932 (PR31/3)
Burials, 1814 - 1973 (PR31/4)
Services, 1906 - 1949 (PR31/5)
Other Records (unlisted):
(Acc. 1997/46)
Notes regarding restoration of the heraldic escutcheons by R. Louise Jennings Jun 1969 |